Broken Families

What is a broken family? It is a family with the children involved where parents are legally or illegally separated and whose parents have decided to go and live their lives separately for several reasons/problems. It is one where the parents (mother and father) of a child or children have split up and no longer share a single family home as a family unit. This is also known as a broken home.

“Broken family” or “Broken home” is a term used to describe a household, usually in reference to parenting, in which the family unit does not properly function according to accepted societal norms. This household might suffer from domestic violence, a dissolved marriage, drug abuse, or anything else that interferes with the upbringing of children.

The phrase 'Broken Home' is more commonly used when either the mother or father is not part of the family due to bad circumstances, as mentioned above, which makes a child's upbringing suffer. It is less commonly used for parents who have simply split up, and are still both in contact and on good terms with the child.

“So why did you choose this topic for your research?” We chose to have ‘broken families’ as our research problem because we want to know why situations like this occur for some individuals and/or families, how was it like to have or be in this kind of family condition, and to inform other people what are the possible things that they can do to help themselves and the others who are in the same situation to overcome their negative emotions brought about by having an incomplete family.

Statements of the ProblemThe first statement of the problem for our research paper would be what a broken family is and what are the reasons why this occurs? What are the effects of having such an “incomplete” family to the children that are involved? Also, what are those problems that are faced by a single parent? Does he/she encounter the same problems as he/she...

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